War With The Newts

SpaceCanon: I wanted to talk to you about War with the NewtsEvan: Oh yea! I love that bookSpaceCanon: yeah man me tooEvan: In addition to many other things, I feel like it is the missing link between modern science fiction and like Frankenstein and DraculaSpaceCanon: it’s so tenuously “science fiction”SpaceCanon: actually very little scienceSpaceCanon: and it doesn’t feel like fiction eitherEvan: like, the epistolary structureEvan: is that the right word?SpaceCanon: I’m not sureEvan: its lettersSpaceCanon: oh, you mean the fragented, modernist narration?Evan: yupSpaceCanon: it’s like the Wasteland of sci fi booksEvan: but people remember it being this weird prophetic thing about nazismEvan: and not much elseEvan: but i think it really is a major thingSpaceCanon: I read that Karel Capek “died of a broken heart” shortly after he wrote itSpaceCanon: when he realized how fucked czechoslovakia was going to beEvan: that is crazy